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Dan E. Eyre —
of Hastings, Dakota
County, Minn.
Born in Northamptonshire, England.
Dry goods merchant; mayor
of Hastings, Minn., 1867-69; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1871-72 (7th District 1871, 20th
District 1872).
Burial
location unknown.
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Norman Wolfred Kittson (1814-1888) —
also known as Norman W. Kittson; "Commodore
Kittson" —
of Pembina, Pembina
County, Minn. (now N.Dak.); St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Sorel, Lower Canada (now part of Sorel-Tracy, Quebec),
March
5, 1814.
Democrat. Fur trader; helped end the Hudson Bay Company's fur
trading monopoly in 1849; member
Minnesota territorial council 7th District, 1852-55; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1858-59; operated steamboats
on the Red River from Minnesota north into Winnipeg in the 1870s;
worked with James J. Hill to build the St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway
in 1879-81.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in the dining
car of a train
en route from Chicago to St. Paul, near Roberts, St. Croix
County, Wis., May 10,
1888 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Henry Mower Rice (1816-1894) —
also known as Henry M. Rice —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Waitsfield, Washington
County, Vt., November
29, 1816.
Son of Edmund Rice (1784-1829).
Democrat. Fur trader; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1853-57; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-63; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1865.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
15, 1894 (age 77 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Henry Steen (b. 1858) —
of Winona, Winona
County, Minn.; Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minn.
Born in Norway,
1858.
Clothing business; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 2nd District, 1915-18; member of
Minnesota
state senate 2nd District, 1927-28.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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